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Current Results (Major Competitions Only)

From 88 games:	Derby County 31 Wins Nottingham Forest 36 Wins Draws 21
Last Meeting
Sep 17 2011:	le class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;">	Nottinghm Forest	1-2	Derby County
Reid [pen 5]	H/T (1-1)	Ward [29] Hendrick [72]

Championship

Football League Championship

The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...

City Ground

The City Ground is a football stadium in the West Bridgford area of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, on the banks of the River Trent. It has been home to Nottingham Forest Football Club since 1898, and has a capacity of 30,602 ....

, Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

Attendance: 27,356 Next Match

Competition: Championship

Football League Championship

The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...

Venue: Pride Park Stadium

Pride Park Stadium

Pride Park Stadium is an all-seater football stadium located on the Pride Park business park on the outskirts of Derby, England. It is the current home of Football League Championship club Derby County, who moved to the stadium from the Baseball Ground upon its opening in 1997...

, Derby

Derby

Derby , is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407...

, England

England

Date: 4 February 2012

This article is only about games featuring Nottingham Forest and Derby County. For games with either of those clubs against Leicester City
Leicester City F.C.
Leicester City Football Club , also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester...

, see Leicester City F.C. and Nottingham Forest F.C. rivalry
Leicester City F.C. and Nottingham Forest F.C. rivalry
The fixture between Leicester City and Nottingham Forest is a football rivalry played between the two East Midlands clubs, sometimes referred to as an East Midlands derby, though the name is more traditionally between Nottingham Forest and Derby County...

or Derby County F.C. and Leicester City F.C. rivalry
Derby County F.C. and Leicester City F.C. rivalry
The fixture between Leicester City and Derby County is a football rivalry in the East Midlands. The fixture is sometimes called an East Midlands Derby but the term is usually reserved for Derby's games against Nottingham Forest...

.
The East Midlands derby is a sobriquet used to describe football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

matches held between Derby County

Derby County F.C.

Derby County Football Club is an English football based in Derby. the club play in the Football League Championship and is notable as being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888 and is, therefore, one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English...

and Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest F.C.

Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...

. It was first held on 1 October 1892 at the Racecourse Ground in the Football League Division One, and saw Nottingham Forest win 3–2. The most recent meeting between the two was a Football League Championship

Football League Championship

The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...

match at City Ground

City Ground

, Nottingham

Nottingham

on September 17, 2011, which finished in a 2-1 Derby County win. Although the clubs are rivals due to their geographical proximity – the rivalry grew even more intense towards the late 1970s when Brian Clough was appointed Forest manager, much to the dismay of the Derby support. According to a survey on football rivalries it is the 11th fiercest rivalry in English football, with 9 out of 10 fans from both clubs pointing to the other as their fiercest rival. The fixture will return in the 2011–12 Football League Championship

2011–12 Football League Championship

The 2011–12 Football League Championship is the eighth season of the league under its current title and nineteenth season under its current league division format....

season after Derby finished 19th and Forest failed to earn promotion via the playoffs after a 6th place finish in the 2009–10 campaign.

Since 2007 whenever the two teams meet the winner has been awarded the Brian Clough Trophy

Brian Clough Trophy

The Brian Clough Trophy is a football trophy competed for whenever East Midlands rivals Derby County and Nottingham Forest play each other . The trophy is named after Brian Clough, who managed both clubs to great success...

, in memory of the man

Brian Clough

Brian Howard Clough, OBE was an English footballer and football manager. He is most notable for his success with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. His achievement of winning back-to-back European Cups with Nottingham Forest, a traditionally moderate provincial English club, is considered to be...

who had great success at both clubs. The inaugural match was held at Pride Park in July 2007 which Derby won 2–0.

History

The rivalry between the two clubs was not, initially, a great one. In the 1880s the town of Derby

Derby

had two clubs, Derby County

Derby County F.C.

and Derby Junction

Derby Junction F.C.

Derby Junction F.C. were an amateur football club in Derby, England. They were active in the 1880s and 1890s, notably being founder members of the Midland League in 1890 and FA Cup semi-finalists in 1888. They played at Derby Arboretum....

, whilst the city of Nottingham had Forest

Nottingham Forest F.C.

Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...

and Notts County

Notts County F.C.

Notts County Football Club are an English professional football club based in Nottingham. They are the oldest of all the clubs in the world that are now professional, having been formed in 1862. They currently play in League One of The Football League, the third tier of the English football system...

as local rivals. Even when Derby Junction folded and became part of Derby County animosity between the two clubs went no further than friendly banter.
The two clubs first met in 1892 following Forest's election to the Football League that same year when it was expanded to two divisions in size after four years as a one tier setup. Forest has formed in 1865, 19 years before Derby, but had elected to join the Football League's rival, the Football Alliance

Football Alliance

The Football Alliance was an association football league in England which ran for three seasons, from 1889–90 to 1891–92.It was formed by 12 clubs as a rival to the Football League, which had begun in the 1888–89 season, also with 12 member clubs...

, instead in 1889–90. Their winning of the Alliance title in the 1891–92 season ensured they were voted into the First Division

Football League First Division

The First Division was a division of The Football League between 1888 and 2004 and the highest division in English football until the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The secondary tier in English football has since become known as the Championship....

when the two leagues where merged in 1892. The fixture was held at least twice a season from 1892 until 1906, when Forest were relegated. Due to the two world wars, and the fact both clubs had a habit of enjoying success at different times, they jointly contested in only 6 league seasons (or 12 matches) for the next 64 years, all of which came in Division Two

Division Two

Division Two may refer to either:* Football League Two the current fourth tier of the English football league system* The Football League Second Division, the former second and later third tier of the English football league system...

, with an additional four meetings coming in the FA Cup

FA Cup

The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...

.

In the past 39 seasons, since the fixture returned onto the First Division

Football League First Division

fixture list in the 1969/70 season, meetings have been slightly more common, though not as common as the Merseyside

Merseyside derby

The Merseyside derby is the name given to any football match contested between Everton and Liverpool football clubs, the two most successful clubs from the city of Liverpool in England...

, or Manchester

Manchester derby

The Manchester derby is the name given to football matches between Manchester City and Manchester United. The local derby centres on the City of Manchester and Greater Manchester with approximately four miles separating the clubs with City based in east Manchester at the City of Manchester Stadium...

derbies. Both clubs have jointly contested 17 league seasons, 12 in the Top Flight and a further 5 in the second tier. This return coincided with the rivalry developing into what it is known as today, largely due to when former Derby manager Brian Clough

Brian Clough

took over at Forest, much to the anger of the Derby fans – in fact some commentators have described the rivalry to be as much about which club owns Clough's heart as much as the proximity of the clubs geographically. This, alongside the fact that Derby is a one club city and Forest fans do not see Notts County as a genuine threat as they have traditionally occupied the bottom two tiers of English football whilst Forest the upper two, lit the torch between the two supporters and there has been a bitter rivalry ever since. Both Derby and Forest fans have a large hatred for each other, and on a number of times have clashed. One famous incident occurred in the 1980s when, after a game, Derby hooligans teamed up with Leicester City

Leicester City F.C.

Leicester City Football Club , also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester...

(who also have a strong dislike for Forest) to cause trouble in Nottingham

Nottingham

city centre and confront the Forest fans. Over 60 fans from all sides were arrested. More recently, prior to an FA Cup Fourth Round meeting in Derby in January 2009, Forest fans threw two sheep's heads at Derbyshire pubs. The two sets of supporters did, however, put their differences aside to commemorate their former manager Brian Clough

Brian Clough

in a special memorial service at Derby's Pride Park Stadium

Pride Park Stadium

following his death on 20 September 2004. The two met in the Championship

Football League Championship

The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...

just 6 weeks later in an emotional match which saw Derby win 3–0, their biggest win over Forest in 25 years.

Recent meetings have been amongst the most controversial in the fixture's history. On November 2, 2008, refree Stuart Attwell

Stuart Attwell

Stuart Steven Attwell is an English professional football referee from Nuneaton, Warwickshire. He made a prominent debut in 2008 as the youngest person ever to referee in the Premier League.-Career:...

became the centre of attention when he disallowed two Derby goals in the final few minutes and booked eight players and issued a straight red card to Forest midfielder Lewis McGugan

Lewis McGugan

Lewis Shay McGugan is an English professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Championship side Nottingham Forest...

. Derby boss Paul Jewell

Paul Jewell

Paul Steven Jewell is a former English footballer who is currently the manager of Ipswich Town.His playing career started with Liverpool before moving to Wigan Athletic and then a ten-year spell with Bradford City...

was especially vocal in his dismay at Attwell's performance, accusing the 25-year-old official of 'losing control' of the game and 'robbing' the Rams of a victory. The press furore around his display saw Attwell called in for a meeting with Referee's Chief Keith Hackett

Keith Hackett

Keith Stuart Hackett is an English former football referee, who began refereeing in local leagues in the Sheffield, Yorkshire, area in 1960...

and was consequently axed from the following week's fixture list. Days after the game Jewell said that a member of the Football Association

The Football Association

The Football Association, also known as simply The FA, is the governing body of football in England, and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. It was formed in 1863, and is the oldest national football association...

had contacted him and told him that the second goal should have stood.

Animosity between the club's grew even further with the appointment of former Derby manager Billy Davies

Billy Davies

William McIntosh "Billy" Davies is a Glasgow-born Scottish football manager, noted for his achievement in the Football League Championship with East Midlands Rivals Derby County and Nottingham Forest and Preston North End which has led him to be described, in 2011, as "probably the best manager at...

at Forest in December 2009, along with the signing of several former Derby players in Lee Camp

Lee Camp

Lee Michael John Camp is an English-born Northern Irish footballer who plays for Nottingham Forest and internationally for Northern Ireland as a goalkeeper. He has also played for the England under-21's.-Derby County:...

, Robert Earnshaw

Robert Earnshaw

Robert Earnshaw is a Welsh footballer who plays for Cardiff City and Wales. He is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in the English Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two , the League Cup, the FA Cup and for his country at International level.Earnshaw was born in Mufulira,...

and Dexter Blackstock

Dexter Blackstock

Dexter Anthony Titus Blackstock is an English footballer who currently plays for Nottingham Forest in the Football League Championship. He plays as a centre-forward.-Southampton:...

, and the appointment of Nigel Clough

Nigel Clough

Nigel Howard Clough is an English former footballer and the current manager of Derby County. Playing predominately as a striker, but later in his career was used as a midfielder, Clough was capped by England 14 times in the early 1990s....

as Derby manager, along with the signing of former-Forest favourite Kris Commons

Kris Commons

Kris Commons is an English-born Scottish footballer who currently plays as a left winger for Scottish Premier League club Celtic and the Scotland national team...

at Pride Park. Two fractious FA Cup

FA Cup

ties, including one in which Derby came from 2–0 down to win 3–2 and win at the City Ground for the first time since 1971, did not help matters and Robbie Savage

Robbie Savage

Robert William "Robbie" Savage is a football pundit and former Welsh professional footballer who played predominantly as a midfielder. During his career he captained Derby County, and also played for the Welsh national team. He now presents 606 on BBC Radio Five Live on Sunday evenings alongside...

's post-match scarf waving did not endear him to the Forest support. Following a match on August 29, 2009, in which Forest won 3–2 to secure their first victory over Derby in 6½ years, a post-match scuffle broke out between the Derby and Forest players after Nathan Tyson

Nathan Tyson

Nathan Tyson is an English professional football striker, who is currently playing for Derby County.-Reading:...

, in reaction to Savage's scarf waving the previous season, celebrated in front of the Derby County fans with a corner flag that had the Nottingham Forest logo on it, an incident the FA said they would investigate with some 'urgency' the end result of which saw both club's fined for failing to control their players and Tyson charged with improper conduct. Derby were fined £20,000, of which £10,000 was suspended, and ordered to pay £400 costs, Nottingham Forest were fined £25,000, of which £10,000 was suspended, and ordered to pat £1,200 costs and Tyson was fined £5,000. A second brawl broke out during the return fixture in January 2010 after Chris Gunter

Chris Gunter

Christopher Ross "Chris" Gunter is a Welsh footballer who plays for Nottingham Forest, and the Wales national team, as a defender. Though a Newport native, he moved to Cardiff as a child and later joined Cardiff City's youth system...

pushed Jay McEveley whilst the latter was taking a throw-in. The FA announced they would investigate the brawl whilst former Derby manager Billy Davies

Billy Davies

claimed that Nigel Clough had "attacked" him during the melee and made a formal complaint to the League Manager's Association.

Major Competitions

The clubs have met 88 times in all Major competitions, 79 times in the Football League, 8 times in the FA Cup and once in the League Cup.

Competition	Played	Derby County	Draw	Nottingham Forest	Derby County Goals	Nottingham Forest Goals
League	79	27	19	33	122	128
FA Cup	8	4	2	2	12	8
League Cup	1	0	0	1	1	2
Totals	88	31	21	36	135	138

Minor Competitions

There have also been a further 26 meetings in various minor competitions of varying importance. The majority of these have come in Wartime competitions, such as the Wartime Cup and the regionalised Football Leagues, set up during World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

and World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

to keep football running during the conflicts. There was also one meeting in the Anglo-Italian Cup

Anglo-Italian Cup

The Anglo-Italian Cup is a defunct European football competition that was played intermittently between 1970 and 1996 between clubs from England and Italy. Founded by Gigi Peronace in 1970, following the success of the Anglo-Italian League Cup, it was played as a professional tournament until 1973...

Competition	Played	Derby County	Draw	Nottingham Forest	Derby County Goals	Nottingham Forest Goals
Anglo-Italian Cup Anglo-Italian Cup The Anglo-Italian Cup is a defunct European football competition that was played intermittently between 1970 and 1996 between clubs from England and Italy. Founded by Gigi Peronace in 1970, following the success of the Anglo-Italian League Cup, it was played as a professional tournament until 1973...	1	1	0	0	3	2
Brian Clough Trophy Brian Clough Trophy The Brian Clough Trophy is a football trophy competed for whenever East Midlands rivals Derby County and Nottingham Forest play each other . The trophy is named after Brian Clough, who managed both clubs to great success... Inaugural Match	1	1	0	0	2	0
Football League (N) Football League North and South The Football League North and Football League South divisions of the Football League were created for the League to continue while limiting the amount of movement that was required by teams. The Leagues started in 1941; however, the leagues only had one full season, in 1945-46...	6	3	1	2	15	12
Football League (S) Football League North and South The Football League North and Football League South divisions of the Football League were created for the League to continue while limiting the amount of movement that was required by teams. The Leagues started in 1941; however, the leagues only had one full season, in 1945-46...	2	1	1	0	4	3
Midland Section	4	1	0	3	7	13
United Central League	4	2	1	1	6	2
VE Victory in Europe Day Victory in Europe Day commemorates 8 May 1945 , the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. The formal surrender of the occupying German forces in the Channel Islands was not... Celebration Match	1	0	1	0	2	2
VJ Victory over Japan Day Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which the Surrender of Japan occurred, effectively ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event... Celebration Match	1	1	0	0	4	1
Football League War Cup Football League War Cup The Football League War Cup was an association football tournament held between 1939 and 1945 which aimed to fill the gaping hole left in English Football by the cancellation of the FA Cup.- Background:...	6	3	2	1	10	8
Totals	26	13	6	7	53	43

All Competitions

Competition	Played	Derby County	Draw	Nottingham Forest	Derby County Goals	Nottingham Forest Goals
Major Competitions	88	31	21	36	135	138
Minor Competitions	26	13	6	7	53	43
Totals	114	44	27	43	188	181

Last ten years

Forest's relegation from the Premier League in the 1998/99 season meant that the first meeting between the two clubs in the new millennium

Millennium

A millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years —from the Latin phrase , thousand, and , year—often but not necessarily related numerically to a particular dating system....

did not occur until the 2002/03 season, following Derby's relegation from the top flight in the previous season. A 0–0 draw at Pride Park Stadium

Pride Park Stadium

was followed by a 3–0 win for Forest at the City Ground

City Ground

, Forest's first victory in the fixture since 1994. The fixture was contested four more times over the next two years as both clubs remained rooted in the Football League Championship

Football League Championship

The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...

with arguably the most notable fixture between the two clubs coming on 20 March 2004 at the Pride Park Stadium

Pride Park Stadium

, which Derby won 4–2. Both clubs were battling to avoid the drop into League One at the time, which ensured much media attention regarding the ailing fortunes of the two most prominent clubs in the career of the legendary Brian Clough

Brian Clough

. It was the highest scoring encounter between the clubs since 1970 and was also memorable for 'The Coffee Cup Incident', the cup was retrieved by groundstaff and is still in the Derby trophy cabinet. As the ball travelled back to Forest keeper Barry Roche

Barry Roche

Barry Christopher Roche is a footballer who plays for Morecambe as a goalkeeper. He is a former Irish Under-21 international.-Career:...

, it struck a coffee cup and bobbled up, causing Roche to slice it neatly into the path of Paul Peschisolido

Paul Peschisolido

Paolo Pasquale Peschisolido , commonly known as Paul Peschisolido, is a Canadian association football manager and former player...

, who took full advantage to put the ball into an empty net and put Derby 2–0 up. Whilst both clubs eventually survived relegation, the following season Forest went down to League One, were they remained for three seasons.

When the fixture returned during the 2008/09 season, after Forest's promotion and Derby's relegation from the Premiership, it was held four times. Following a 1–1 draw at Pride Park Stadium

Pride Park Stadium

in the league in October 2008, the teams were then drawn against in the FA Cup

FA Cup

fourth round. Following a 1–1 draw at Pride Park Stadium

Pride Park Stadium

, Derby won the replay 3–2, after being 2–0 down within the first 15 minutes, ex-Forest player Kris Commons

Kris Commons

Kris Commons is an English-born Scottish footballer who currently plays as a left winger for Scottish Premier League club Celtic and the Scotland national team...

scoring the winner. It was Derby's first win at the City Ground since 1971 and their first away win under new manager Nigel Clough

Nigel Clough

. They won again at the City Ground just three weeks later, this time winning 3–1 in the Football League Championship

Football League Championship

The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...

. Forest got their first win over their rivals in six years with a 3–2 victory at the City Ground on August 29, 2009. Derby, struggling in 19th, won the return match 1–0, 2nd placed Nottingham Forest's first defeat in 19 matches and their first away defeat of the campaign, on January 30, 2010. The following campaign, after Derby's survival and Forest's failure in the 2009/10 Championship playoffs, Forest earned their revenge with a comprehensive 5-2 victory, their biggest in the fixture since a 5-1 win in 1904, and a 1-0 win at Pride Park to earn their first win at Derby in nearly 20 years. It was also the first double in the fixture since 1991.

With Derby again surviving a close-run relegation battle and Forest again failing in the playoffs, the fixture returned for a fourth consecutive season, the longest run since it was held in four consecutive seasons between 1987 and 1991. The first meeting of the 2011/12 season saw ten-man Derby recover from being a man and goal down after 5 minutes to win 2-1 at the City Ground

City Ground

, to claim their third win in five attempts on enemy territory.

The total record over the past 10 years reads –

Competition	Played	Derby County	Draw	Nottingham Forest	Derby Goals	Forest Goals
League	13	5	4	4	21	20
FA Cup FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...	2	1	1	0	4	3
Brian Clough Trophy Brian Clough Trophy The Brian Clough Trophy is a football trophy competed for whenever East Midlands rivals Derby County and Nottingham Forest play each other . The trophy is named after Brian Clough, who managed both clubs to great success...	1	1	0	0	2	0
Totals	16	7	5	4	27	23

Crossing The Divide

Since World War II

World War II

some 30 players have played for both clubs, the majority of these moves coming in the 1970s/80s. The most famous individual to have represented both clubs, however, is unquestionably the man regarded as the greatest manager in the history of both – Brian Clough

Brian Clough

Management

The first man to be involved in management at both clubs was Harold Wightman

Harold Wightman

Harold Wightman was an English football manager, who managed Luton Town, Mansfield Town and Nottingham Forest.-External links:...

. A player with Derby between 1919 and 1927, Wightman was assistant at Derby under George Jobey

George Jobey

George Jobey was an English football player and manager. He won the league championship as a player with his hometown club Newcastle United.-Career:...

and was later appointed Forest

Nottingham Forest F.C.

Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...

manager between 1936 and 1939. Peter Taylor followed a similar path, he was assistant manager at both Derby and Forest, becoming Derby's full manager in 1982.

The first man to be the actual manager at both clubs was Dave Mackay. Mackay, who managed Forest between 1972 and 1973, joined Derby in 1973 as the replacement for the man who would eventually become the second man to manage both clubs Brian Clough

Brian Clough

. Mackay won the First Division title for Derby in 1974-75, which was Derby's second First Division title in four seasons.

Brian Clough

Brian Clough

managed Derby County

Derby County F.C.

between June 1967 and October 1973, winning the Second Division

Football League Second Division

From 1892 until 1992, the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football.This ended with the creation of the FA Premier League, prior to the start of the 1992–93 season, which caused an administrative split between The Football League and the teams...

title to gain promotion in 1968-69, and winning the First Division title in 1971-72. This was followed up by a controversial European Cup

UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...

semi final loss to Juventus

Juventus F.C.

Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...

during the 1972-73 season. Clough joined Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest F.C.

Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...

in January 1975, following spells with Brighton

Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club are an English association football club based in the coastal city of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex. They currently play in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English football league system....

and the famous 44 days in charge at Leeds Utd. Clough took over from Mackay's initial replacement Allan Brown, with Forest struggling in the Second Division. In 1977-78, Forest won the First Division title in their first season after gaining promotion from the Second Division, having won the League Cup

Football League Cup

The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup or, from current sponsorship, the Carling Cup, is an English association football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout basis...

earlier in the 1977-78 season. In 1978-79, Forest retained the League Cup and won the European Cup

UEFA Champions League

. 1979-80 saw Forest narrowly miss out on winning a third League Cup in a row, as they lost to Wolves

Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club that represents the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region. They are members of the Premier League, the highest level of English football. The club was founded in 1877 and since 1889 has played at...

in the final, but they did retain the European Cup. Forest won 2 more League Cups later on in Clough's managerial reign. Clough won the First Division

Football League First Division

with both Forest and Derby, becoming the first man to win it with two different clubs since Herbert Chapman

Herbert Chapman

Herbert Chapman was an English association football player and manager. Though he had an undistinguished playing career, he went on to become one of the most successful and influential managers in early 20th century English football, before his sudden death in 1934.As a player, Chapman played for...

. He left the club in 1993.

On December 31, 2008 it was announced Billy Davies

Billy Davies

was to become the new manager at Forest. Davies had been out of work following his dismissal at Derby in November 2007, making him the third man to manage both clubs.

In the 2011/12 season, Derby were managed by Nigel Clough

Nigel Clough

and Forest by Steve McClaren

Steve McClaren

Stephen "Steve" McClaren is an English football manager and former player.McClaren was previously manager of VfL Wolfsburg in Germany between May 2010 and February 2011, having left his post at Dutch side FC Twente, with whom he won the club's first Eredivisie championship in the 2009–10 season...

. Interesting, both managers had played for the opposition team in the 1980s, with McClaren also serving as Derby assistant manager in the late 1990s under Jim Smith

Jim Smith (footballer)

James Michael "Jim" Smith is a retired English footballer and manager. As a player, he made 249 appearances in the Fourth Division of The Football League, representing Aldershot, Halifax Town, Lincoln City and Colchester United, and played for three-and-a-half years for Boston United of the...

Players

Since the Second World War

World War II

some 30 different players have represented both Derby and Forest. The majority of these movements came in the 1970s/80s, when Clough signed many of his former Derby players for his new club Forest.

However, the first notable move was Scottish left winger Stewart Imlach

Stewart Imlach

-External links:* * by Angus Robertson MP....

who, after an unsuccessful spell at Derby in the 1954–55 season signed for Forest for a fee of £5,000 in 1955. He went on to play in the Forest side that beat Luton Town in the 1959 FA Cup Final.
The next direct transfer between the two clubs was Alan Hinton

Alan Hinton

Alan Thomas Hinton is an English former footballer who most notably played for Derby County and Nottingham Forest in the 1960s...

. Hinton spent four years at Forest between 1963 and 1967 before Clough signed him for £30,000. Forest had seen Hinton as a fairly uninspiring player and a number of Forest directors were known to have smugly put it about that Derby would "soon be asking for their money back". They were proved wrong when Hinton played 253 times for the Rams over the next 8 years, scoring 63 goals and winning two League Titles.
Other Forest to Derby transfers in the late 60s/early 70s saw Terry Hennessey

Terry Hennessey

William Terrence "Terry" Hennessey is a Welsh former international footballer who gained 39 caps for Wales. He played as a defender and made 400 Football League appearances in the 1960s and 1970s with Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest and Derby County.After his playing career, he managed a number...

and Henry Newton

Henry Newton

Henry Newton may refer to:* Sir Henry Newton, baronet , after a change of surname Sir Henry Puckering, 3rd Baronet* Henry Newton , Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1758 to 1760...

join Derby directly from Forest and Frank Wignall

Frank Wignall

Frank Wignall is a retired English international footballer who played professionally for Everton, Nottingham Forest, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Derby County and Mansfield Town. He later became player-manager of King's Lynn....

make the move with a spell with Wolves in between.
All of these players made telling contributions to Derby's regular triumphs from 1969 to 1975.
Following Clough's move to Forest in 1975 he signed many of his former Derby players for the Reds. Both John O'Hare

John O'Hare

John O'Hare is a Scottish former footballer. His clubs included Sunderland, Derby County and also Nottingham Forest and was part of their European Cup victory in 1980, coming on as a substitute in the final. He also won thirteen caps for the Scotland national team, scoring five goals.- Career...

and John McGovern

John McGovern (footballer)

John McGovern is a Scottish former association football player and manager. McGovern is most famous for captaining the Nottingham Forest side that won the European Cup twice, under the management of Brian Clough....

initially followed Clough to Leeds in 1974 before joining him at Forest, twice lifting the European Cup.
Archie Gemmill

Archie Gemmill

Archibald "Archie" Gemmill is a Scottish former footballer, most famous for a goal he scored against the Netherlands in the 1978 FIFA World Cup...

joined Forest directly from Derby in 1977 and Colin Todd

Colin Todd

Colin Todd is an English football manager and former player. As a player, he made more than 600 appearances in the Football League, playing for Sunderland, Derby County, Everton, Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Oxford United and Luton Town, and also played in the North American Soccer League...

joined Forest in 1982, four years after leaving the Rams. What is notable about the Gemmill transfer is he rejoined Derby in 1982 (3 years after ending his term with Forest) becoming the only player to resign for one side of the divide after playing for the other, on a full term basis at least. Charlie George

Charlie George

Charles Frederick "Charlie" George is an English former footballer. He played as a forward in the Football League and he was also capped by England.-Arsenal:...

, a Mackay signing who played for Derby between 1975 and 1978, joined Forest on loan from Southampton in 1980, before re-signing for Derby for 11 games in 1982.

Going in the other direction, three of Forest's European Cup winners joined Derby. The most famous is Peter Shilton

Peter Shilton

Peter Leslie Shilton OBE is a former English footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He currently holds the record for playing more games for England than anyone else, earning 125 caps....

who left Forest for Southampton in 1982 and joined Derby for a five year spell between 1987 and 1992. The most infamous was John Roberston. Robertson was signed by Peter Taylor in 1983 in a highly contested transfer, which eventually went to tribunal. Clough felt his old mate had pulled off an underhand deal, and the two former partners fell out, never to reconcile their differences before Taylor's death in Majorca in October 1990. The other former European Cup winning Red to join Derby was Kenny Burns

Kenny Burns

Kenneth "Kenny" Burns is a former Scotland international footballer, most famous for his time with Nottingham Forest, where he played a vital role in their European Cup successes....

, who spent a year at Derby between 1984 and 1985. All three of these players signed for Derby at a time when Forest's great successes were still fresh and the Rams were in the wilderness.

Since then there have been few high profile players who have played for both clubs. Those who have include goalkeepers John Middleton, Steve Sutton

Steve Sutton (footballer)

Stephen "Steve" Sutton is an English former professional football goalkeeper, currently working as a coach.-Playing career:...

and Lee Camp

Lee Camp

, defenders Gary Charles

Gary Charles

Gary Charles is an English former footballer who played at right-back.-Playing career:Charles won two caps for the England team and turned out at club level for Nottingham Forest, Derby County, Aston Villa, S.L. Benfica, and finally West Ham United. Charles was famously fouled by Paul Gascoigne in...

, Gary Mills and Darren Wassall

Darren Wassall

Darren Wassall is a retired English football defender.Wassall began his career in 1984 at Nottingham Forest, where he was a product of the youth system. He failed to win a regular first team place, although he was a reliable stand-in to the likes of Des Walker, and was loaned out to Hereford...

, midfielders Steve Hodge

Steve Hodge

Stephen Brian Hodge is a retired English footballer who enjoyed a high-profile club and international career in the 1980s and 1990s.- Playing career :...

, Glyn Hodges

Glyn Hodges

Glyn Hodges , is a Welsh football manager and former player. He played 18 times for the Welsh national side, scoring twice.-Football career:...

, Darryl Powell

Darryl Powell

Darryl Anthony Powell is an English-born former professional footballer who made more than 350 appearances in the Football League and Premier League and played international football for the Jamaican national team...

and Lars Bohinen

Lars Bohinen

Lars Roar Bohinen is a Norwegian former footballer.-Club level:His first professional club was Vålerenga, and he played for Viking, Young Boys Bern, Nottingham Forest, Blackburn Rovers, Derby County...

and forwards Mikkel Beck

Mikkel Beck

Mikkel Venge Beck is a Danish former football player, who played for a number of clubs, most famously for Middlesbrough FC and Fortuna Koln...

, Dexter Blackstock

Dexter Blackstock

Dexter Anthony Titus Blackstock is an English footballer who currently plays for Nottingham Forest in the Football League Championship. He plays as a centre-forward.-Southampton:...

and Dean Saunders

Dean Saunders

Dean Nicholas Saunders is a former Wales international footballer who played as a striker in a professional career which lasted from 1982 until 2001. He is the manager of Doncaster Rovers....

. On 30 May 2008 Rob Earnshaw

Robert Earnshaw

became the first player to move directly between the two clubs for 15 years (since Gary Charles

Gary Charles

in 1993) when he agreed to a £2.65m deal to join Forest from the Rams less than a year after moving to Pride Park. The move was followed three days later by Forest winger Kris Commons

Kris Commons

Kris Commons is an English-born Scottish footballer who currently plays as a left winger for Scottish Premier League club Celtic and the Scotland national team...

moving to Pride Park, though he was released by Forest first meaning he did not move directly between the two clubs. After rejecting a contract extension from Nottingham Forest in May 2011, striker Nathan Tyson

Nathan Tyson

Nathan Tyson is an English professional football striker, who is currently playing for Derby County.-Reading:...

joined Derby County in June 2011.

Records

The following records are based solely on meeting in major competitions :

The record home victory in a league match is 5–0 recorded by Derby County at The Baseball Ground
Baseball Ground
The Baseball Ground was a stadium in Derby, England. It was first used for baseball as the home of Derby County Baseball Club from 1890 until 1898 and then for football as the home of Derby County from 1895 until 1997. It was commonly referred to as the "BBG".As the name suggests, the stadium was...

on 11 April 1898.
The record away victory in a league match is 6–2 recorded by Nottingham Forest, again at the Baseball Ground, on 14 November 1903.
The highest scoring match saw 8 goals when Forest won 6–2 at the Baseball Ground on 14 November 1903.
Steve Bloomer
Steve Bloomer
Steve Bloomer was an English footballer and manager who played for Derby County, Middlesbrough and England during the 1890s and 1900s. Bloomer remains a legend at Derby County and the club anthem, Steve Bloomer's Watchin', is played before every home game...

of Derby County holds the mark for the most derby goals with 26 between 1892 and 1912.
Record Attendance: 62, 017 at Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
The National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace in south London, England is a large sports centre and athletics stadium. It was opened in 1964 in Crystal Palace Park, close to the site of the former Crystal Palace, in the former parkland and also usurping part of the former grand prix circuit.It was...

for the 1897–98 FA Cup Final on 16 April 1898, which Forest won 3–1.
Record League Attendance: 42, 074 at The City Ground
City Ground
The City Ground is a football stadium in the West Bridgford area of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, on the banks of the River Trent. It has been home to Nottingham Forest Football Club since 1898, and has a capacity of 30,602 ....

on 14 March 1970, which Derby won 3–1.
Lowest Attendance: an estimated 3,000 at Baseball Ground
Baseball Ground
The Baseball Ground was a stadium in Derby, England. It was first used for baseball as the home of Derby County Baseball Club from 1890 until 1898 and then for football as the home of Derby County from 1895 until 1997. It was commonly referred to as the "BBG".As the name suggests, the stadium was...

on 20 April 1899, a match which Derby won 2–0

League Doubles

Due to the nature of the football league match schedule, when Derby and Nottingham Forest are in the same division they will play each other twice, once at Derby's stadium and once at Nottingham Forest's. Occasionally, one of either club will win both fixtures resulting in a "league double". This has happened on 15 occasions, 9 times in Forest's favour and 6 in Derby's. Derby did beat Forest twice in the 2008/09 season, but one of those wins came in the FA Cup

FA Cup

and both were at the City Ground.

Season	Division	Double Winner	Result at Derby	Result at Forest
1892/93	Division One (Old)	Nott'm Forest	2–3	1–0
1893/94	Division One (Old)	Nott'm Forest	3–4	4–2
1895/96	Division One (Old)	Derby	4–0	2–5
1897/98	Division One (Old)	Derby	5–0	3–4
1903/04	Division One (Old)	Nott'm Forest	2–6	5–1
1904/05	Division One (Old)	Derby	3–2	0–1
1911/12	Division Two (Old)	Derby	1–0	1–3
1921/22	Division Two (Old)	Nott'm Forest	1–2	3–0
1925/26	Division Two (Old)	Derby	2–0	1–2
1953/54	Division Two (Old)	Nott'm Forest	1–2	4–2
1954/55	Division Two (Old)	Nott'm Forest	1–2	3–0
1971/72	Division One (Old)	Derby	4–0	0–2
1987/88	Division One (Old)	Nott'm Forest	0–1	2–1
1989/90	Division One (Old)	Nott'm Forest	0–2	2–1
2010/11	Football League Championship	Nott'm Forest	0-1	5-2

Notable matches

The most notable meeting between Derby and Forest came in 1898 when the two contested the 1897/98 Cup Final at Crystal Palace, a match which saw Nottingham Forest run out 3–1 victors to take the cup for the first time. Another notable FA Cup meeting came when Forest drew Derby in the 3rd Round at The Baseball Ground

Baseball Ground

The Baseball Ground was a stadium in Derby, England. It was first used for baseball as the home of Derby County Baseball Club from 1890 until 1898 and then for football as the home of Derby County from 1895 until 1997. It was commonly referred to as the "BBG".As the name suggests, the stadium was...

on 8 January 1983. Clough's Forest where twice European Champions and one of the countries premier clubs whilst Derby where now a struggling Division Two

Division Two

club and under the management by Clough's long term former right hand man, Peter Taylor. Derby famously won 2–0.

Other notable meetings include

First Meeting & First Nottingham Forest Win – 1892/93 in Football League Division One – Derby County 2 – 3 Nottingham Forest, 1 October 1892
First Derby County Win – 1894/95 in Football League Division One – Derby County 4–2 Nottingham Forest, 8 September 1894
First Hat trick – 1895/96 in Football League Division One by Steve Bloomer
Steve Bloomer
Steve Bloomer was an English footballer and manager who played for Derby County, Middlesbrough and England during the 1890s and 1900s. Bloomer remains a legend at Derby County and the club anthem, Steve Bloomer's Watchin', is played before every home game...

, Nottingham Forest 2 – 5 Derby County
First Draw – 1896/97 in Football League Division One – Derby County 1 – 1 Nottingham Forest, 5 September 1896
Biggest Home Win – 1897/98 in Football League Division One – Derby County 5 – 0 Nottingham Forest, 11 April 1897
First FA Cup Meeting – 1897/98 in FA Cup Final – Derby County 1 – 3 Nottingham Forest, 16 April 1897
Biggest Away Win & Highest Scoring Game – 1903/04 in Football League Division One – Derby County 2 – 6 Nottingham Forest, 14 November 1903
First League Cup Meeting – 1985/86 in Football League Cup 3rd Round – Derby County 1 – 2 Nottingham Forest, 30 October 1985
Most Recent Derby Win away at Forest – 2011/12 in Football League Championship – Nottingham Forest 1 – 2 Derby County, 17 September 2011
Most Recent Forest Win at Derby – 2010/2011 in Football League Championship – Derby County 0–1 Nottingham Forest, 22 January 2011

Brian Clough Trophy

In 2007 it was decided that whenever the two teams played in the league or in a cup tie the Brian Clough Trophy

Brian Clough Trophy

, in memory of the man who had great success at both clubs, would be awarded to the winner. The inaugural match was held at Pride Park in July 2007 which Derby won 2–0. Derby retained the trophy in the next four meetings, with two 1–1 draws at Pride Park and two victories, 3–2 and 3–1, at The City Ground. Despite losing the trophy to Forest for the first time after a 3–2 defeat at the City Ground in August 2009, Derby reclaimed the trophy after a 1–0 win at Pride Park Stadium on January 30, 2010. Forest are the current holders, retaining the trophy with a 1-0 at Pride Park on January 22, 2011.

Hooliganism

Games between the two teams, like the majority of local derbies in English football

Football in England

Association football is a national sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game...

, have resulted in a significant number of football hooliganism

Football hooliganism

Football hooliganism, sometimes referred to by the British media as the English Disease, is unruly and destructive behaviour—such as brawls, vandalism and intimidation—by association football club fans...

incidents.

On 23 January 2009, the day of a Football League Championship

Football League Championship

The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...

(second tier) match at Pride Park Stadium

Pride Park Stadium

, watched by more than 32,000 fans,fans of two teams clashed at the Florence Nightingale public house in Derby

Derby

. On 29 March 2010, six Forest fans and six Derby fans were found guilty at Derby Crown Court

Crown Court

The Crown Court of England and Wales is, together with the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal, one of the constituent parts of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...

of offences linked to the incident. The ring leader of the fracas was 49-year-old Alvaston

Alvaston

Alvaston is a suburb and ward of Derby, England. Alvaston is situated on the A6, three miles south-east of Derby city centre. It is bordered to the north by the wards of Derwent, Chaddesden and Spondon, to the east is the City Centre, to the south are Sinfin and Chellaston and to the west the...

man Ian Innes, a Derby fan who led the attack on Forest fans in the pub; he received a 20-month prison sentence and a 10-year ban from all football matches in England and Wales

England and Wales

England and Wales is a jurisdiction within the United Kingdom. It consists of England and Wales, two of the four countries of the United Kingdom...

.His 25-year-old son Stephen was also convicted of taking part in the attack and received a one-year prison sentence along with a six-year nationwide banning order. The trial judge condemned Ian Innes as a "thorough and utter disgrace".

External links

http://www.soccerbase.com/head2.sd?team2id=1845&team1id=747 – a complete list of results between the two clubs.
http://beehive.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=11165&PageID=65877
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/sport/localradio/archive/forest_derby_audio.shtml

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